What kind of cold data tiering options do you have with SAP BW/4HANA?(2)

Question

Options

• AHadoop cluster
• BSAP HA NA extension node
• CSAP IQ database
• DSAP Data Warehouse Cloud

• A
  89% (47)
• B
  4% (2)
• D
  8% (4)

Explanation

SAP BW/4HANA's cold data tiering allows infrequently accessed data to be offloaded from expensive in-memory HANA storage to cheaper external storage systems. Hadoop (A) is supported as a cold tier via HDFS integration, enabling large volumes of archived data to be stored at low cost. SAP IQ (C) is a columnar nearline storage (NLS) solution that acts as a cold tier, keeping data queryable without occupying HANA memory.

B is wrong because the SAP HANA Extension Node (Dynamic Tiering) handles warm data - less-accessed but still on HANA - not cold data, and it's an in-HANA feature rather than an external cold store. D is wrong because SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is a separate cloud analytics product, not a tiering destination for BW/4HANA data.

Memory tip: Think "Cold = Hadoop and IQ" - both are external, non-HANA systems built to store massive, rarely accessed data cheaply. If the option lives inside HANA (extension node) or is a standalone cloud product (DWC), it's not a BW/4HANA cold tier.

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